Here we are...us old "married folks" happily out here on an island because... 
...waaay back in 1989, two Southern Preppy History-geeks fell in love... 
...and happily tied-the-knot on April 6th, 1991(now 20 years ago)... 
...commencing on a life-journeying that was different from the "typical"... 
...with never a dull moment from NC to UT to now an island offa' SC...This Wednesday...20 years ago...at 7:30 p.m. in the evening...
...James and I were married!
It's hard to believe that 2 whole decades have already come-around within our married life at this point in time, wow. 22 years ago we met through, yes, our college's History Honor Society, Phi Alpha Theta and six months later we were engaged. James popped the question just before my sorority's ball and so we had a candlelight ceremony right then n' there in the ballroom once all my sisters and their dates had finished arriving. What's it like to have a whole lotta' Chi Omega's engulf you with hugs and smiles and well-wishes and excited screams just after your girlfriend, er finance', blows out the candlelight's candle? Well, ask James ;) Half stayed on the ballroom floor surrounding me and the other half swarmed the table where James and some of the other guys sat in complete amazement in witnessing a traditional sorority-rite of passage usually reserved for enacting within our house on Sorority Row. However, it's not one a' those secret-things of fraternity/sorority life so it was fine to be doing this "right then, right there".
A year later, we had the proverbial "huge Southern wedding": white tie dress, a southern pound cake with rolled fondant icing, pearls galore', white roses n' tulips n' ivy n' all but....up in Milwaukee....due to family medical logistics for a parent and partly due to the fact that from my junior high days onwards, we had been living up North and loved our dear friends there too! Both James and my southern families attended and it was such a good time had by all.
We began our married life in Charlotte, NC as typical Preppy-Yuppies then happily decamped out to the mountainside of Park City, UT to be ski-bum/fly-fishing bums and now are back in these Lowcountry environs on an island off the coast of South Carolina...living a life I like to call Simple Yet Elegant, as in a refined drenched-in-Southern version of simple living. It's been a very interesting 20 years of marriage n' living n' lifestyling that's for sure!
We've carried our Southern Preppy penchants n' preferences which were born n' bred into us throughout our life journeying: both as a married couple and as singles. When I met James, I knew that we had a common bond and cultural-vernacular we both well understood.
We've been fortunate to have such a fun friendship with one another as well as a good marriage.
Here's to the previous 20 years and to 20 more years n' beyond.....James, you're the best!!!!!
Wishing my readers as well the experience of a wonderful relationship throughout the years :)
What a beautiful tribute to your husband to your marriage. Love to see and hear of people happily married....I too feel blessed to love my husband very much and cannot believe its been 25 years!!! May you continue to grow and love each other until forever....
ReplyDeleteThank you so much and wow with ya'll's 25 years...that is so very wonderful :) I'm thrilled for the both of us having great relationships with our spouses! Wishing the same to you from here and all the best, Lachlan
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